BULBOPHYLLUM. (Ч 
The sepals and petals are of а pale reddish-brown, with streaks of a darker shade 
of the same colour. The lip is dark reddish-brown. 
Рглте 104.—Bulbophyllum piluliferum, King and Pantling, А plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 
a flower, seen from the side, 2 a flower, front view, 3 lip, 4 ovary, column and its foot, and the lip, 
From the side, 5 column showing its apical processes and foot, 6-anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
17. BULBOPHYLLUM GRACILIPES, King and Pantling in Journ. As. бос ioo a. 
Vol. LXV, pt. 2, 118. 
Rhizome 715 in. thick, bearing the remains of sheaths and also leaves at 
intervals of "8 to 1°25 in., pseudo-bulbs none. Leaf solitary, subcoriaceous, oblanceolate 
or elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse and minutely bifid at the apex (sometimes obliquely во), 
much narrowed to the sessile or sub-sessile base; length 1 to 2:25 in. Scape erect, 
filiform, longer than the leaves and rising either at the base of a leaf or from au 
interspace, with one sheathing bract at the base and another at tho middle; the 
flowers crowded in a capitulum about *35 in. in diam.; floral bract ovate, half as long 
as the shortly stalked ovary. Flowers “1 in. across, fleshy and of a dull purple colour, 
dorsally compressed. Sepals sub-equal, 3-nerved; the dorsal triangular, lying close to the 
column, its apex acute, revolute; the lateral pair ovate, acute, spreading but slightly. 
Petals shorter than the sepals, oblong, faleately acute, l-nerved. Гір obovate, tumid, 
decurved from the middle, the whole of its surface papillose, the posterior 
portion deeply grooved, the anterior convex, dilated, the edges entire and the apex 
broad. Apical processes of the column broad, abruptly pointed. Anther depressed, 
its lip truncate; pollinia pyriform, all four uniform. 
Sikkim; in the valley of the Teesta and elsewhere at elevations of about 1,500 feet; 
Pantiing, No. 242; in flower during September and October; rather plentiful in the 
localities where it occurs. 
The flowers of this are of a dull purple throughout. It resembles В, piluliferum, 
King and Pantling, in its capitate inflorescence, and to some extent in its flowers; but 
. differs in having no  pseudo-bulbs, and in having oblanceolate and not linear-oblong 
leaves widely distant on a rhizome. This is still more closely allied to В. zylophylium, 
Reichb. fil., but that species has spurs at the base of the dorsalsepals which are quite 
absent in this; it bas, besides, blunt lateral sepals. Moreover the leaves of В. xylophyllum 
are very much thicker in texture and their broad apices are emarginate ; its flowers, 
moreover, are yellowish-green and are larger than the flowers of this. 
Рілте 105.—Bulbophyllum gracilipes, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
scen from the front, 2 floral bract, stalked ovary, column with its foot, and the lip, seen from the 
side, 3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 column and its foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
18. BULBOPHYLLUM REPTANS, Lindl. іп Wall. Cat. 1988; Gen. and Spec. Orchid. 51. 
Rhizome thin, wiry, naked, branching, “1 in. in diam.; pseudo-bulbs 2'5 in. apart, 
obpyriform, smooth, *6 to ‘75 in. long. Leaf linear-oblong, sub-acute, obliquely notched 
at the apex, slightly narrowed at the base to the very short petiole; length 3:5 to 
6 in., breadth “25 to :35 in.; petiole “2 in. Scapes shorter or longer than the leaves, often 
in pairs, slender, more or less decurved; the peduncle sheathed at base, bracteate, 
varying in length, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than the laxly-flowered raceme, 
